Entertainment

What will be a rather crowded fourth quarter of 2013 for Black cinema begins this month, with at least 13 feature films that tell stories centered primarily on characters of African descent scheduled for theatrical release over the next three months.

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Some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever interviewed have been dyslexic, including film directors like Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects), Joe Wright (Anna Karenina) and Guy Ritchie (Snatch), as well as matinee idol Channing Tatum, who opened up to me about the pain he felt…

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More than four years after Michael Jackson’s death, a jury on Wednesday rejected the notion that the promoter of his ill-fated comeback concerts was linked to his demise, ending a long-running case that offered an unprecedented look into the singer’s addiction struggles, concert preparations and…

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Sundance Institute announced a series of workshops for emerging screenwriters, directors and multidisciplinary artists to Miami and Philadelphia over the coming year, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation last week.

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In July, the rumor was that a new BET show had been offered, but that was never confirmed. Although maybe it wasn’t entirely a rumor after all, as it’s been formally announced today that Mo’Nique, is indeed in talks to host a new talk show, but not with BET. 

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Steven Rodney McQueen’s critically-acclaimed directorial debut, Hunger, won the Camera d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. He followed that up with the incendiary offering Shame, a well-received, thought-provoking drama about addiction and secrecy in the modern world.

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Harry Lennix is back on series television with the premiere of NBC’s “The Blacklist,” a drama starring James Spader as a longtime fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted List who turns himself in so that he can help catch more bad guys like himself – while continuing to secretly pursue his own agenda, of course.

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Emmy award winning actor Wayne Brady (Let’s Make A Deal), Laz Alonso (Jumping The Broom) and Richard Roundtree (Being Mary Jane) were just a few of the stars that attended ICON MANN’s Black Men in Entertainment & Multimedia Pre-Emmy dinner on Friday, September 20, 2013.

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With the final act looming in the long-running negligence suit by Michael Jackson’s family against his concert promoter, the lawyer for AEG Live LLC told jurors that Jackson was the architect of his own demise and no one else can be blamed.

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GSN (Game Show Network) announced last week that the network has signed comedian-actor DeRay Davis as host of the new original half-hour game show series “Mind Of A Man,” which will see two female contestants try to figure out what men really think, with the help of a celebrity panel.

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